NBG BLACK COCKATOO MANAGEMENT PLAN Management Plan Boddington Environment NEWMONT BODDINGTON GOLD BLACK COCKATOO MANAGEMENT PLAN OCTOBER 2014 PREPARED BY: NEWMONT BODDINGTON GOLD PTY LTD Sub Dept. THIS DOCUMENT IS UNCONTROLLED IN HARDCOPY FORMAT Doc Id: NBG-ENV-MP-70-11201 Standard Ref: IMS 16; Date of This Issue: 29/07/2014 Date of Next Review: 29/07/2015 Page 1 of 63 NBG BLACK COCKATOO MANAGEMENT PLAN Management Plan Boddington Environment TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. PURPOSE .............................................................................................................................4 2. SCOPE ..................................................................................................................................4 3. OBJECTIVES ........................................................................................................................4 4. INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................7 4.1 Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoo ................................................................................10 4.1.1 Species Range .......................................................................................................10 4.1.2 Habitat Requirements .............................................................................................10 4.1.3 Life-History - Breeding ............................................................................................10 4.1.4 Life History - Diet ....................................................................................................10 4.1.5 Historical Impacts ...................................................................................................10 4.2 Carnaby’s Cockatoo .....................................................................................................11 4.2.1 Species Range .......................................................................................................11 4.2.2 Habitat Requirements .............................................................................................11 4.2.3 Life-History - Breeding ............................................................................................11 4.2.4 Life History - Diet ....................................................................................................12 4.2.5 Historical Impacts ...................................................................................................12 4.3 Baudin’s Cockatoos ......................................................................................................12 4.3.1 Geographic Distribution ..........................................................................................12 4.3.2 Habitat Requirements .............................................................................................12 4.3.3 Breeding .................................................................................................................12 4.3.4 Diet .........................................................................................................................12 4.3.5 Historical Impacts ...................................................................................................13 4.4 Known and Potential threats to all 3 cockatoo species .................................................13 5 LEGAL AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS .............................................................................14 5.1 Legal Database ............................................................................................................14 5.2 Wildlife Conservation Act 1950 (WA) ............................................................................14 5.3 Environmental Protection Act 1986 (WA) ......................................................................14 5.4 Ministerial Statement 971 - Forest Disease Management .............................................15 5.5 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Commonwealth) ......15 5.6 Other Requirements .....................................................................................................17 5.6.1 Integration with Recovery Planning .........................................................................17 5.6.2 The International Cyanide Management Code (ICMC) ...........................................18 6 ECOLOGY OF BLACK COCKATOOS AT NBG ................................................................. 19 6.1 Overview ......................................................................................................................19 6.1.1 General Ecology .....................................................................................................19 6.1.2 Baudin’s Cockatoos ................................................................................................19 6.1.3 Carnaby’s Cockatoos ..............................................................................................20 6.1.4 Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (FRTBC) ............................................................20 6.2 Research and Surveys .................................................................................................21 6.2.1 The Vertebrate Fauna of the Boddington Gold Mine (Ninox Wildlife Consulting 2003) 21 6.2.2 The Ecology of three threatened Black Cockatoos within a mining production landscape in the Jarrah-Marri Forest of Western Australia (Lee J.2013) ..............................22 6.2.3 Assessment of Habitat Values for Black Cockatoos within the Eastern Acquired Lands at Newmont Boddington Gold Mine (Finn 2011) ........................................................23 6.2.4 Methods to Assess Breeding Habitat for Black Cockatoos in the Jarrah Forest of South-western Australia (Finn et al. 2011) ............................................................................24 6.2.5 Landscape Position Predicts Distribution of Eucalypt Feed Trees for Threatened Black Cockatoos in the Northern Jarrah Forest, Western Australia (Biggs et al. 2011) .........24 6.2.6 Vertebrate Fauna Survey within Newmont Boddington Gold Mine. An Assessment of Potential Waste Rock Disposal Areas, July 2012 (Ninox Wildlife Consulting 2012) ..............25 7 BLACK COCKATOO MANAGEMENT AT NBG..................................................................25 7.1 Vegetation Clearing ......................................................................................................29 7.1.1 Habitat Tree Marking and Spatial Database Management ......................................31 Sub Dept. THIS DOCUMENT IS UNCONTROLLED IN HARDCOPY FORMAT Doc Id: NBG-ENV-MP-70-11201 Standard Ref: IMS 16; Date of This Issue: 29/07/2014 Date of Next Review: 29/07/2015 Page 2 of 63 NBG BLACK COCKATOO MANAGEMENT PLAN Management Plan Boddington Environment 7.1.2 Access to Water......................................................................................................31 7.1.3 Noise ......................................................................................................................34 7.1.4 Light........................................................................................................................34 7.1.5 Rehabilitation ..........................................................................................................34 7.1.6 Infrastructure ..........................................................................................................35 7.1.7 Habitat Conservation, Restoration and Creation .....................................................35 7.1.8 Injury and Mortalities ...............................................................................................37 7.1.9 Collaboration ..........................................................................................................38 7.2 Monitoring, Communications and Reporting .................................................................39 7.2.1 Internal Monitoring ..................................................................................................39 7.2.2 Internal Communication ..........................................................................................40 7.2.3 External Consultation & Reporting ..........................................................................40 7.3 Contingency actions .....................................................................................................42 8 FUTURE WORK ..................................................................................................................42 9 REVIEW OF THE PLAN ......................................................................................................43 10 DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS ...............................................................................43 11 RELATED DOCUMENTS ....................................................................................................44 12 REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................45 13 APPENDICIES .....................................................................................................................47 Appendix 1 – Further Murdoch University Research Information (2007 – 2010) .......................47 Appendix 2 – Usage of Habitat Type for species of Conservation significance potentially occurring in the Development Envelope (Figure 1) ...................................................................53 Appendix 3 – Carnaby’s